Egggg Yolk, what is going on with the viewers of the tuuuubeeee! Who actually gets to see
this video….my name is Tyler and welcome to the channel that always tells it like it
is, and wishes corporate virus commercials would do
the same…...you know our corporate handbook. It’s time for Chico Crpto!
Well I said, those who actually get to see this video…..well Chico’s youtube channel
is currently being shadowbanned. Yesterday’s excellent video, which is actually a very,
very important piece of crypto content...was performing normally for the 1st 4 hours….up
to 16,500 views according Youtube's own analytics…...and then something changes. Views absolutely flatline….gaining
just 4 thousand more views over the next 12 hours, and pushing it wayyyy out of my normal
views range, which is that gray area.
The more obvious analytic of a shadowban is the impressions. Within the 1st 4 hours on
Youtube the video had 55 thousand impressions. Which is an average of over 13,750 impressions
per hour. Those stopped dead flat past hour 4, and over the next 12 hours, the video received
less than 5k impressions, or just 416 impressions per hour. In impression per hour drop of only
96 percent.
Obviously, YT stopped showing this video to literally everybody. But at least my click
through rate on the video is almost at 75 percent, because literally people have to
search for this video, and want to click on it. You wanna know what a normal click through
rate is. Well, how about my Elon video, very popular topic ehhhh...well that video click
through rate was just 5.5 percent. Obviously something is up, and it’s called a shadowban
against my videos.
And even my subscribers know it. Here are comments from the video. Ping said...getting
shadow banned i guess. This didn’t go on my recommeded list, had to go to your channel
direct. oAlvinn...this video was shadow banned too. Saso….I am subscibed to your channel
but it doesnt show me new videos, sad face. Ya I’m sad tooo Saso
Nithin…..says he couldn’t see my video even on his subscribed list, and josh says
youtube is hiding your videos bigtime, but I still found this one. Well that is the reason
for the more than excellent click through rate…..
And this is not limited to just Chico, but the crypto youtube industry as a whole. Alex
Saunders, I’m sure you guys know him as Nuggets News, he is facing similar things
as mee. Luckily he hasn’t been censored and banned by twitter like me already, so
he got to tweet about it “Recently @YouTube began shadow banning videos so they don't
show in feeds. Even to subscribers with "Show All" settings on. You can clearly see how
views just stop dead”
And he got YouTube to notice. They replied. “Thanks for reaching out – with fewer
people available to review content due to COVID-19, we’re being extra cautious with
flagged content. It may not show up on subs feed before it’s reviewed. It's worth watching
this video for the full context” So they blame it on the fewer people due to
the virus, thus they are shadowbanning flagged content now?
Well, this is correct by Youtube and incorrect at the same time, and goes much deeper than
just the virus, it goes back to something that has been affecting us since December.
The scam giveaway youtube videos, you guys have seen which included the likes of Ripple,
Brad Garlinghoouse Vitalik, and others giving away Ethereum if you send a certain amount
to the address they have posted.
Now a larger Youtuber has covered this actually, not crypto related…. Upper Echelon Gamers,
all the way back in November of 2019. His video is titled youtube is facilitating the
scamming of millions, while doing nothing about it. He covers the scam well, and explains
the reason why he is doing this video, is a friend of his, another youtuber... fell
victim to the attack.
So what is the attack? Well the scammers and hackers, use phishing techniques sent to youtubers
emails, to gain access to their accounts. I get them daily, but I’m not a damn idiot,
so I don’t fall prey to plain out phishing attacks, but some people do, even large youtubers.
Here is the latest one, I got a couple days ago, it is using the virus stuff, to hopefully
get you to click into the blue button link, and then provide your login details.
As you can see below, they create urgency, by saying if you fail to comply with the latest
virus community guidelines, this could result in strike on your account, or even lead to
account termination.
And unfortunately people have fallen prey to this one lately. Going to Youtube’s help
for creator forum...where creators are looking for help, we can see in the past 24 hours,
multiple accounts have been hijacked.
But there are more forms of this attack, and it’s called spear fishing. A little more
complex, but it’s when a creator gets an email, not from youtube, but from a potential
sponsor. And with the allure of money, the creator eventually gives up their account
details.
So once the account is taken over, by the hijacker…. they rename the account to something
like Vitalik Buterin. Then as we can see below, they post a video of a giveaway….that one
is a 100,000 ethereum. It’s a total scam, and they just take your ethereum. DO NOT FALL
PREY FOR THESE ACCOUNTS, and I cannot believe this one is still up on youtube.
But they also do brad garlinghouse of Ripple and an XRP scam giveaway, this one was super
common, I’m sure you saw it many times….well Ripple, and Brad decided to “do” something
about it…Brad Garlinghouse announced a lawsuit against Youtube on Twitter for allowing these
scam giveaways.
He said this “Across the industry, social media companies have failed to police their
platforms from being abused by the entirely preventable imposter giveaway scams. Hundreds
of people (including some of you) have been hurt, yet big tech continues to drag their
feet. Today, @Ripple and I personally are taking legal
action against @YouTube because their platform is the epicenter for imposter scams, and they’ve
done next to nothing in response to our constant takedown requests. He finishes by pulling
on the heart strings. In times like these, when consumers already feel vulnerable, it’s
more important than ever to protect people from these rampant scams.
And into the lawsuit, “The Scam has also irreparably harmed Ripple’s brand and Mr.
Garlinghouse’s reputation.By infringing on Ripple’s protected trademarks and misappropriating
Mr. Garlinghouse’s image and likeness, the Scam fosters the false belief that Ripple
and Mr. Garlinghouse are somehow associated with or to blame for the Scam (they are not),
and introduces profound uncertainty and confusion into the broader digital asset market
And what do they want? Well of course money...An award to Plaintiffs of damages, including
but not limited to, compensatory, statutory,and punitive damages, as permitted by law and
in such amounts to be proven at trial and for a recover in restitution equal to any
unjust enrichment enjoyed by Defendant, as Ripple says youtube profited from Ad’s off
these scam giveaways.
So as we can see, the lawsuit was filed on April 21st. The 1st signs of shadowbans, they
came around May 2nd. In a week and a half, after the lawsuit, we started to see the effect
on crypto channels. This is obviously, something to do with taking down the scam giveaway videos…..
I mean, if it wasn’t we would see other genres of channels, having the same problems.
Every industry, every sub genre has to deal with mass reports, and flaggers. If we go
to the Youtube creators reddit, do we see anyone else talking about shadowbans? Not
a single topic on it.
So, this is crypto and btc focused, and is a direct result of Brad Garlinghouse, and
Ripples lawsuit against Youtube. Thanks Ripple, you freaking jerks!
So, Youtube is a corporation, and all they care about is Money. Corporations are seeking
one thing, and one thing only profit. What kills profit? Lawsuits and large one’s like
this. And this is very selfish of Ripple and Brad, I get it, ya the scam giveaways are
bad, but if you win this “lawsuit” are you going to be giving that money to the people
who lost it in the fake giveaways? How about me and all the other crypto youtubers for
the lost ad revenue as collateral damage because of your lawsuit?
No you won’t, you will take it all for your greedy grubby hands. All I gotta say, is this
is pathetic, and I hope it gets resolved soon. Yesterday’s video, that got shadowbanned
was exposing some of the scammers in the space, and as a result of a lawsuit, because of scammers,
a video exposing scammers disappeared.
So please YouTube, don’t hurt the good in the space, because of the BAD aka scammers
and XRP, they employ bot army’s themself, to manipulate social media. I mean recently,
you have Geoff Golberg, who is suing Twitter for his account suspension, as it was reported
by an army of bots.
I wonder what Geoff was exposing on twitter to get bots to report him? The XRP army of
bots. We here at Chico just call it like we see it, and this is disgusting. Cheers viewers,
I’ll see you next time!